[Alarms] Allow snoozing an alarm/silencing a phone call by turning the phone face down.

[Michael Zanetti]

It'd be great to allow snoozing alarms using the "turnover" gesture as described here:

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/sensorgesture-plugins-topics.html

(Same goes for silenting incoming calls)

To be more precise on how the gesture would work:

In order to avoid false positives, the device needs to be turned from face up to face down. If the device is already face down when the alarm/call starts ringing, it needs first to be turned face up and then again face down.

---- UX comment ----

Great idea, this is a good example of a 'moment of delight' interaction.

Feel free to add this functionality.

[Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)]

I think Motorola phones are using that feature, which is quite nice actually. No objectives from my side.

[James Mulholland (jamesmulholland)]

Appears to be a device capability related bug, will flag for relevant design team member.

[Paty Davila (dizzypaty)]

Proximity sensor is an API that developers are welcome to use (please refer to the Screen blanking policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RBoVknCLZ4GQ8E_iVftd3i_KmdxI5d6JrBt7i5EDZO0/edit?usp=sharing) However, we won't use it for the default behaviour of the Clock app. It's a feature that requires discovery and understanding of usage for the 'standard' user.

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

I don't think this has anything to do with the proximity sensor, also not screen blanking...

this bug is about using the gyroscope sensor to snooze an alarm...

[Andrea Bernabei (faenil)]

It doesn't matter which sensor is involved.

Design team decided that this UX is not desired, not for the default Clock app. 3rd party developers are allowed to implement this in their app if desired (even though I think the platform doesn't offer a way to do that, yet, right?)

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

fwiw, this can't be added by 3rd party apps... needs to be done in unity8 (also not in the clock app)

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

Reopening this after discussing with design on the Shell sprint